Holistic healers April 7, 2007

Seth Cowan was getting a little tired of ending up in the emergency room. His primary care provider treated his acute flare-ups of back pain with muscle relaxants, which helped for a while, but he would find himself back in the ER just a few months later. “It just seemed like there had to be something else,” Cowan says.

At the time he was an undergraduate student at the University of Washington with an interest in health care. He had heard of Bastyr University, a natural health science center just north of Seattle, and decided to see if someone at the student teaching clinic could help. “They addressed my back pain: no more muscle relaxants, no more ER visits,” he says.

It was that experience that led him to become a naturopathic doctor, earning his degree at Bastyr, and eventually opening Skagit Natural Family Medicine in Mount Vernon with his wife Michelle Antonich, also a naturopathic doctor and licensed midwife trained at Bastyr.Read More…